OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1908.
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The Telegram says "The Willam
ette Is going down!" Well, you
wouldn't expect it to go up, would
you!
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Idaho's State funds earned $18,226 1
In Interest within the past year. Such !
a system should bring fair returns In !
Oregon.
Senator Fulton picks Taft as the
winner of the Presidential nomination,
and predicts that Taft will have a
solid delegation from Oregon to the
Republican National convention.
The sugar trust Is charged with
baving robbed the government for
years by a scheme of short-weighing
cargoes of foreign sugar. And this Is
one of what Mark Hanna classed as
the "good trusts," too.
In Kansas the authorities are sup
plying assessors with Bibles, to swear
people on as to their taxable posses
sions. Such a step would do no good
In Oregon. The better class of citl
sens can tell the truth without a Bi
ble to test them, and the worst ele
ment would only be frightened with
a shot gun.
The desire for a "dry" Sunday in
Boise has become so strenuous that
the proprietor of a bath house was
arrested for violating the law in per
mitting persons to bathe at his es
tablishment. He demanded a Jury
trial, and the Jury disagreed. Boise
is all torn up over whether or not one
has a right to bathe on Sunday.
Taft suggests free trade in sugar
and tobacco between this country and
the Philippines. Why not free trade
In everything? If certain of the "In
terests" can't stand it let them suffer;
they wished the Islands annexed, and
now that they are a part of us let's
be fair and treat the Filipinos right,
even If a few who were so anxious
that we have colonies must pay the
price.
An exchange says: "All this hue
and cry about President Rwsevelt
disturbing the business interests of
the country, instigated, probably, by
corporations whose corruption he Is
endeavoring to expose and punish, re
minds me of the old Quaker whose
wife discovered him kissing the hired,
girl behind the door. He said, 'Wife,
if thee doesn't quit thy peeking, thee
will make trouble in the family.' "
George Putnam, editor of the Med
ford Tribune, was arrested for con
tempt of court recently. When
George has time to pull himself to
gether he should load up his political
gun and go after the thin-skinned
judge and take his scalp. These judges
who are so thin-skinned they must
hide behind the imaginary law .of
contempt are not fit to sit in judgment
on others.
The Governor cf Nevada ha3 called
an extra session of the legislature to
try and settle the labor troubles dis-
uiamona qiven
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We are doing this to ad
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turbine; that State, If an effort Is
made to settle the contention honora
bly, we may hope to see conditions
bettered; but if the effort is made to
care for the interests of the rich mlno
owners as against the poor miner,
the settlement that may be forced by
the power of the State will not stay
long settled.
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Senator Fulton Is under too deep
obligations to those connected with
land frauds to permit I'nlted States
District Attorney Bristol to retain
that position. It must be some one
more In sympathy with the land
fraud ring. Bristol will doubtless
have time to take the stump next
Spring, and Heney may Join him. It
may become decidedly Interesting for
Fulton, who cannot be blamed for not
wishing to go back on his friends, re
gardless of the good name of Oregon.
Woodburn Independent,
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Two moves among the financial In
stitutions of Portland within the past
week will aid in bringing about a
better feeling In that city. Mr. Ladd
agrees to pay the liabilities of the de
funct Title Guarantee & Trust Co.,
while the German-American bank has
decided to take over the business and
assets of the Oregon Savings & Trust
Co. and settle all claims against that
institution. This will be good news
.to creditors of the two institutions
and serve to abate the natural fear of
financial Institutions which those
two failures some weeks ago engen
dered. A dispatch from Denver reads:
"Judge R. E. Lewis, of the Federal
Court, today quashed all indictments
and sustained all the demurrers in
coal land fraud cases, thereby releas
ing about 50 prominent defendants
from prosecution. Recently he
quashed the indictments for alleged
timber frauds, and today's action
brings to naught the work of the spe
cial grand jury called last May." Does
any one think this judge did this dirty
work "without money and without
price?" Is anything short of a coat
of tar and feathers and disgrace for
life to be meted out to such a man?
A prescription of that character for
a dozen or so Judges, would do much
to clear up the atmosphere in any lo
cality. There are judges who are
above price, and to them all honor,
but to a man of the stripe the dispatch
In question would indicate his par
ticular judge to be should be given
public punishment at the hands of the
masses.
THREE-CENT FARE ON ELECTRIC
The Eugene Guard asks: "Big
things are expected from the new Or
egon Electric road, but it looks now
as if the road was In a combine with
the S. P. A tariff of 3 cents a mile
has been announced, the same as the
S. P. This win cause a general howl
all along the line. Besides this, the
road will have no more stations than
the S. P., and it is doubtful if it
makes any better time. Just now the
company is waiting for the proper
ballasting to the roaa before running
cars regularly."
Chances are that the S. P. owns the
new electric route. That's the way
the railways of the East settle the
matter of competition. .
A SENATOR FOR OREGON.
If the Republicans of Oregon wish
to elect a successor to Senator Fulton,
it Is high time they were up and do
ing. If the Democrats make a sys
tematic can ass they can def?at Ful
ton, hands down, and the indications
now are that the Democrats will name
a good man and organize In a way to
poll all the votes that party controls
in the State.
We are not in a position to say
i that Senator Fulton compromised him
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at our office and let us make you a price on
your dental work before you contract with
some other dentist at the high prices usually charged people in Oregon City.
We are equipped to do all branches of dentistry. Our workmanship is
the best obtainable; our prices are right and just the same as at our Portland
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utmai wuiiv uuut ai una units,
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old style rubber plates.
We hold a certificate from the State Board of Dental Examiners.
self In the land frauds In Oregon; but
many people think he did, aud not a
fow of thos'i go minded are tyepubll
cans. To get these men to vote for
Fallon as hU own successor the party
lash will need be used Industriously,
and even that Is pot likely to whip
Into line hundreds who are against
him on general principles.
Lincoln Stiffen burned his charges
in quite deep, and many who have
read :hem will be loth to think Sena
tor Fulton Innocent. And even If en
tity inocent which, to us, looks
doubtful It will Iw a haul matter to
convince the masses of that fact.
What, then, Is the wise course for the
Republican party? Name some una
else, to bo sure.
It is time that any man who acts
suspiciously bo relegated to the rear.
It is not necessary that we cut our
friendship for a man Just because ho
ts under suspicion; In fact, we think
that would bo unnecessary cruelty.
But when It comes to making choice
of a man for ofllce, no one with even
the smell of smoke on his garments
should be called to serve the public.
There are enough good men to fill all
offices without dunslng those under
suspicion of wrong doing.
And It Is high time that the Repub
lican party cast overboard all Its Jo
nans if It hopes to come to the front
and to stay there.
REV. PETERS AND HIS HOBBY.
There are many men of good Inten
tions who get a-strlde a funny hobby
In an effort to ride Into a safe har
bor. Rev. Madison C. Peters, a pop
ular New York preacher, now comes
to the front with the proposition that
the wife in cases where husband
persists, In his purpose to drink Intoxi
cants, buy It at wholesale and dis
pense It to hubby at retail. He Bays
this will keep a large part of the pres
ent waste In the family exchequer.
But why adopt half way measures?
Why not save 90 per cent Instead of
30 per cent?
Why should not Intoxicauts be Bold
on their merits, the same as coffee
and tea? Why should the man who
drinks whisky be made to pay an ab
normal sum In support of his' appe
tite and the man or woman who likes
coffee and tea go free?
Whyvdoes not this good pastor go
to the root of the evil and grub It out
from the bottom? Take off the Na
tional tax, the State tax, the county
tax and the city tax, and the profits
which these entail, and liquors could
be sold at a small fraction of what
they now cost a man, and the rest
could and In many cases would re
main In the home exchequer. And
why Is this not done?
There are several reasons. One of
them Is that many people Imagine that
the man with the appetite Is paying
part of their taxes, and they wish
him to continue so to do. And among
this number are many who make loud
professions of their Christianity. The
present method of handling the saloon
makes It possible to collect much reve
nue for political purposes. The pres
ent plan gives people with a tendency
to "force" others an opportunity to
legislate for the "other fellow's mor
als," which Is a pet delusion of not
a few.
The internal revenue tax on whis
key Is three times the first cost of
that beverage. The collection of that
tax Is one way of making the man
with the appetite pay a large part of
the National taxes. Is It fair? Is it
Christian? If not and we take that
ground why is not an effort now be
ing put forth to "force" the poor fel
low with the appetite put forth to
save the robbery of his family for It
Is the family that suffers in the last
analysis.
We are going to answer the ques
I tlon ourselves, and we asked It to get
j an opportunity to answer It, and to
answer it In our own way. Because,
by our constantly increasinc
EXTRACTING TEETH; NO
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um uy a uciiiai luncgc grdUUdlc UI iCu ycaTS experience.
Nervous people can have
Over Harding.'s Drug Store,
the longhaired crank and the short
haired crank cnu't win any fame In
trying to do right; fain) of the char
acter that these pranks want Is won
by doing something grotesque, or out
of the ordinary, and any other kind
falls to win the applaudlta of the mul
titude; for It Is along the lino of a
man's duty and none but foolH crave
for It. Paul Jones was a patriot; Ben
edict Arnold sought only personal
glory. We have both these stripes
In the temperance army, and the lat
ter class make the most noise.
We are sorry to call attention to
these things, for we would prefer to
say what we have to say along the
Hue of things needed, and let It go
at that; but past experience tells us
that such a plan brings forth little
good It goes In one ear and out the
other; If one would call a halt In these
days ho" must go the full length and
tit lug some one In order to call forth
a protest.
Rev. Peters wants to do good, wo
are satisfied of that from what we
know of him. But either his eyes are
only partially open, or seeing he dare
not cry out as to what ho sees, but
must tuko a aland on half way ground
for fear of losing standing or popu
larity. Temperance work that Is tc,
wlu must bo on broader lines than
any In the past, for every temperance
movement thus far has been a drag,
and In a short time It has fallen by the
wayside and been choked out by more
vigorous plants.
WHO PAID FOR ITT
Certain plutocratic magnates are
terribly afraid of landing In jail un
less they can In some way break down
the President's hold upon public con
fidence. Their schemes devised to
this end are multifarious, running the
full gamut from a panic to a common
partisan faleshood. Their latest In
vention Is a huge newspaper adver
tisement headed. "Theodore Roose
velt, Destroyer," which Is Inserted
wherever money will place It.
The plutocratic advertisement ac
cuses the President of every crime
under heaven; but, of course, his
worst offense Is that he has tled to
put an end to the robbery of the pub
lic by the syndicates. They can for
give him everything else, but not this.
To their system of theft on a great
scale they give the pleasant name of
"business," and then shriek wildly
that Mr. Rixwevelt Is destroying busi
ness when he eliminates their chance
to steal. "Is It the Square Deal,"
screams the plutocratic advertisement
In type a foot high, "when ho tears
down Industries that took years of
patient effort to build up?"
That depends upon what the Indus
tries are. If the President should
break up a nest of counterfeiters, no
body would think the deal was not
square, even though It had taken
many years for the counterfeiters to
perfect their combinations. Some
people thought It was not a square
deal when Mr. Roosevelt broke up the
system of plundering the public lands
In theWest to swell the fortunes of a
few millionaires; but the people were
Inclined to believe that a millionaire
has no more right to steal from the
Government than has a "poor man.
and they decided that this deal was
reasonably square upon the wholo.
When the President began to Inter
fere with the ancient privilege of
Standard Oil to harry and raid Its
competitors, ruining everybody that
opposed it, debauching public officials
and swindling the people, naturally
Mr. Rockefeller and his satellites,
sycophants and hangers-on set up a
frightful yell that they were not get
ting a square deal. No deal whatever
would suit them except the continued
privilege to commit wholesale rob
bery. So one might go on and enu
merate the different cases which the
plutocrats cite to prove that Mr.
Roosevelt has not given them a square
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part in building up our con.
Our rpanlar nrir ftnn
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their teeth attended to at this
Main Street, OREGON CITY, ORE.
deal. We think that they are right,
at least In part. Their deal has not
boon square thus far, and It will not
bo until a goodly band of them la
lodged In Jail.
The, plutocratic advertisement alov
referred to must have coHt a tidy bit
of money. Home say the expense
could not have been less than $200,.
000. Who paid for It? Was the cost
assessed pro rata upon tluH whose
swag U threatened by the President's
enforcement of the law. Oregonlun.
Our local coiitemtKuary says that
the holidays are over ami there In a
"good demand for dried fruit." The
usual swearing off leaves people no
other alternative but to take their
fruit with the Juice extracted.
Clackamas county has a good force
of efficient officials at this time, The
reiHirta from the several officials show
marked Increase In business done,
and the present ofllclnls are noted for
painstaking, rarerul work In their
several departments,
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A bill to provide Government con
trol of grafting lands has been Intro
duced In Congress and Is known as au
administration measure. The Presi
dent U authorised to, from time to
time, establish by proclamation cer
tain districts of unreserved ami un
appropriated public lands to be used
as grazing laud aud be protected by
officers of the Agricultural Depart
ment, viovernors of states may ap
point a committee to act Jointly In
making apportionments of grating
privileges. The land shall be subject
at all times to homestead entry and
shall be open to prospectors aud oth.
ers. Other rules and regulations are
provided regulating scope of lands
and methods of proportioning tueui
from various states.
WHY POLITICIANS WAIL.
The Portland Journal goes after
Oregon politicians as follows:
"There aro still walls and tears be
cause tho Governor of Oregon Is a
Democrat. Tho iilulatlons are not
from that vast array of tillers and
producers who produce Oregon's
wealth, but from thosn who live by
politics, and who seek to organize
tho State, not for the public welfare,
but for political purposes. The
clothing never did, nor never will
make tho man. Ioes tho mer politi
cal brand make or unmake the offi
rial, or furnish a test of his qualifica
tions? Ioes It have any more to do
with It than does the marking on a
casUiff collar, or a tag on an ancient
sheep pelt?
"Lata events have demonstrated It
to be a happy fact that Mr. Chamber
lain was under no party obligations
to "stand In" with other state offi
cials. Ills critics say he played poll
tics at Treasurer Steel, Was not
the 'politics. then, a good thing, ulnce
It ended so happily for the State and
Its people? J)id not the State get
over 1100,000 worth of money out of
the defunct bank, and Is not the re
mainder secure and drawing 5 per
cent Interest? If Mr. Chamberlain
bad been a Republican, would bo not
have felt that, for tho sake of the
party, and to save It from being scan
dalized, ho ought to 'stand In,' In
which event, would not the result
have been costly to taxpayers? It Is
not always the Impulse of officials of
the same party not to antagonl.e ench
other; for does not each expi-ct aid
and comfort from the other In attain
ing office later? On the contrary. It Is
not the Impulse of an official of differ
ent s)lltlcal faith, especially If a
staong and courageous man like Mr.
Chamberlain, to turn on the npot light
If Irregularities occur, as In the St'-el
affair. Who profits from the turning
on of the sKt light, but the great
plodding body of burdmbearers, so
often victimized on the altar of parti
zanshlp? "The Secretary of State recently re
turned nearly $1,400 In fees to the
State, feed that a partisan legislature
of his own '.aU'l created ior li'..:i
over and against tho plain, unmistak
able mandate of the flat salary law.
Not many days preceding. In publish
ed Interviews, Governor Chamberlain
publicly declared the taking of the
fees to bo Illegal, ami without authori
ty of law. Without questioning or
Insinuating for one moment as to tho
Secretary's motlvo or original purpose
n accepting the fees, It remains a
patent and powerful fact that here
was another case where tho Governor
would not and did not 'stand In,' and
to that extent Oregon Is tho gainer.
If those fees had been allowed to pass
unquestioned Into the hands of the
Secretary, a precedent would have
been established that would have re
sulted !n a renewal of the practice by
future legislature until In this and
other state offices, the abuse would
have accumulated ami the old regime
that cost so enormously under the late
fee system wou'd have been restored
In a new form. The making by a par
tisan legislature of these fees of near
ly $1,000 on the side of tho Secretary
of State Illustrates the 'stand In' ten
dency, and opposition to It by the
Governor exemplifies the tendency of
a courageous man of opposite party
not to wink at the transaction. It, wax,
as a matter of fact, a happy episode
for tho Republican party Itself, as well
as for Oregon, when Mr. Chamberlain
was elected, because It. Is human na
ture, it Is unavoidable, it Is Inevita
ble, It Is fate, for a party, no matter
what party, when It Is utiantagonlzud,
to do foolish and Inexcusable things,
just as the late legislature) did In vot
ing Illegal foes for Secretary Hensan.
The tears and ululatlons of those
who lament because of Mr, Chamber
lain, are those of Job-hunting and pro
fessional iwlltlslans, and nht of the
great body politic who want clean,
economical government., and do not
give a whoop as to how officials aro
politically labeled."
i KOIt SALE- 27 acres onion land. 12
cleared; good fences, new house,
poultry yards and house, stable, 100
fruit trees, aero small fruits;
spring water; 4 miles from Oregon
BONAPARTE STANUSBY
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
THINKS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
NEED A WI8E SHEPHERD
A8 LEADER,
Attorney-General llonaparte, 111 a
speech before tho Illinois Athletic
club, Chicago, uttered a slgnillcaiit
note of warning which gave evldenco
of being Umpired rmiu tho Whlttt
House,
"The great sheepfold, tho American
Union." hu exclaimed, "Is beginning
to turn Its thoughts to the grave
problem f choosing a head watch dog
to guard It for four long years. What
ever applicant for the Job Is viewed
with particular favor by the wolves
may bu well left In his hoiuu kennel.
Wolves cau be trusted to know what
they want and to want what tho sheep
don't want. In plainer language, no
man can be safely trusted to 'take cam
that the, laws bo faithfully executed' If
his selection be longed for and urged
by all or many of these who hav ob
structed rulthful execution of laws
In the piott anil whoso Influences and
resources are formidable ohittacles to
their faithful execution today."
He openly charged that tho pooptn
are. being hoodw Inked as to prosecu
tions of "rich malefactors."
"I believe," ho vxclalmml, "that a
widespread, persistent, systematic and
unscrupulous attempt to deuelvo tho
people hn to these, things has been In
progress during the entire official life
of the prcNcnt national administra
tion and Is In progress today,"
He said criminals of Influence nud
Standing had no objection to the gov
ernment pretending to punish them,
but thought tho government should
end right there,
"In the KuHtern States," h ex
claimed, "the enforcement of federal
statutes forbidding conspiracies In re
straint of trade Is greeted by wails
of unsettling lumlneNH and breeding
panics. In certain Western ami
Southwestern States prosecution of
men who acquire vast tracts of public
land through fraud and perjury Is
fiercely denounced as persecution of
public-spirited cttjton.
"Finally. In som Southern States
attempts to punish under tho laws for
bidding peonage thosB who virtually
enslave hvlpes negroes and Ignorant
foreigners provoke a like outcry,
"In all these cases th Idea under
lying the complaint Is that laws aro
not really Intended to be obeyed by
Homo people. These critics might per
haps consent to some chow of enforc
ing such laws. After a tedious and
exnmslvo Inquiry has shown clearly
that a wrong had been committed, the
culprit may ti called to answer, but
when he how he Is a 'captain of In
dustry' or a 'generalissimo of finance,'
or at least a 'leading rttUen,' In other
words, that he Is rich or Influential,
thoy would have him go unpunished
or, at the worst, escape with a sham
penalty about as formidable a burn
ing with a cold Iron."
Attorney-General llonaparte told
the leaders of the Republican party In
Illinois what kind of men they should
select for their candidate for Presi
dent. Coupled with his sugentions
he made a prediction that the nom
inee, whoever he might be, would
be elected. Mr, llonaparte' word pic
tnre of Gib man might apply as read
ily to President Roosevelt km to Sec
retary Taft It was taken to exclude
Governor Hughe and all others who
are not the avowed champions of
Roosevelt's anti trust K)llcy. Mr. llon
aparte, in a heart to heart talk at a
luncheon with the financiers and
Utral leaders at the Hamilton club,
Chicago, said:
"The nation needs a man who will
carry out the principles of the present
administration. Tho affairs of the na
tion demand a strong and sagacious
b-ader, who will curb, without destroy.
Ing the great Interests, and at the
same time promote remedial legisla
tion to meet the demands of the peo
pie. "The Ideal candidate will be one
who will execute the plans already ful
ly stated by President Roosevelt. If
tho nation should elect an executive
having any other principles, It will
make a mistake when mistakes may
become grave blunders."
Mr. Ilonnpnrte refused to May whom
ho had lu mind. Ho promptly replied
to all Inquiries:
"I came here with the express de
termination not to make known the
name of the man who Is best fitted to
fill tho uoxt term as chief 'executive,"
STOCKHOLDERS,' ANNUAL MEET
ING. Notice Is hereby given to the stock
holders of the Crown Roy's Mining
and Milling Co. of tho annual meeting
at Willamette hall, Monday, Jan. Kith,
1008, at 8 p. m. Kiectlon of officers
and other Important business.
Uy order
HOARD OK DIRECTORS.
I). C, IJAKIiR, Secretary, It
mmm
IN ONE OK MANY COLOR 8
LARGEST FACILITIES
IN THE WEST FOR
THE PRODUCTION OF
HIQH QRADE WORK
IATII At LOW At lAtTIM NOUItl
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